BAMBER-BRIDGE, an '''ecclesiastical district''', in the chapelry of Walton-le-Dale, parish, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, union of Preston,N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles(S. S. E.) from Preston, on the road to Chorley. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50775#s25 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 132-136.''] Date accessed: 06 August 2013.</ref>

+

BAMBER-BRIDGE, an '''ecclesiastical district''', in the '''chapelry''' of Walton-le-Dale, '''parish''', and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, union of Preston, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles(S. S. E.) from Preston.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50775#s25 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848) Date accessed and adapted 29 August 2013.</ref>

Contents

Chapelry History

BAMBER-BRIDGE, an ecclesiastical district, in the chapelry of Walton-le-Dale, parish, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, union of Preston, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles(S. S. E.) from Preston.[1]

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

Online Records

Bamber Bridge chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Blackburn to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Bamber Bridge and comprising the whole ancient parish of Blackburn to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BLACKBURN ST MARY PARISH page.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 306893.

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.